I saw this story making the Twitter rounds this afternoon and if we’re being completely honest here, I didn’t think anything of it. Of course Gronk missed a free throw on purpose to keep his team’s score at 69. Has there ever been a more Gronk story than this? I would’ve been more surprised if this didn’t happen at one time or another in his life.
The story comes from WPRI, a news station in Rhode Island. They did a whole big story on Patriots players when they were in high school and obviously, Gronk stole the show.
And that was far from the only time that Gronk made a high school gymnasium erupt.
“So we’re playing a home game and we have 68 points – now it’s not a blowout, but it’s not a particularly close game either. So he [Gronkowski] gets fouled and goes to the free throw line. He hits the first one to get us to 69 and the place goes nuts because he’s playing into it. On his next free throw, he purposely chucks the ball off the backboard and misses so the score would stay at 69 and then runs back on defense pointing at the scoreboard.”
Yup, pretty much how I would’ve pictured it. Pointing at the scoreboard, crowd going wild, Gronk definitely laughing his ass off.
The only thing less surprising is the hobbies he listed in his school’s media guide. “Working out, playing sports, chicks”. That about sums him up.
